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• Question by: Joanne McCartney
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

I think the Audit Commission raised some of the issues with regard to this as well.

• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

hank you, Chair. Quite rightly you identified budget as one of the key challenges. May I first of all ask you, in terms of the vision and where the Authority goes, since recently taking control - which could prove to be a short period but that is another debate altogether - what instructions have you given to the Commissioner and senior officers for any change of direction that you may be seeking?

• Question by: Jennette Arnold OBE
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

Can I just go back to Commissioner Dobson and can I add my congratulations to you for your years of service to London. It is the hymn sheet that your borough commanders are speaking from that concerns me. Like Joanne [McCartney] said, I was at a partnership meeting and we welcomed the presentation and it was a thorough presentation, but the presentation gave the view that this was within the context of some sort of policy framework and that, if you like, there had been political decisions made in terms of, yes, we are looking for efficiencies and, yes, you...

• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

OK. I want to go back, Commissioner, to the point about fire safety and fires in London, which you mentioned there. The latest performance figures clearly show that the number of serious fires have been rising over the last year across the capital; we have seen an increase in fires in dwellings by around 7% and an increase in non-domestic fires around 17% which is concerning, given the trends previously. We are now seeing it reversed. What changes are you going to make to respond to this worrying trend?

• Question by: Navin Shah
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

I have a question for the Commissioner, if you can, in a minute, briefly respond. The proposal of what the final shape is, is due to go to consultation. During consultation, if there were requests or requirements to reconsider the start and finish time that you have suggested, would the Authority be prepared to look at it? Obviously in other areas other fire brigades have implemented modernisation programmes and have got different shifts. Would you be prepared to look at those?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

Thank you, Commissioner. That sounds like a very reasonable proposal from Londoners' point of view. Why do you think the Fire Brigades Union has objected to it?

• Question by: James Cleverly
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

Councillor Coleman, the line of questioning that we have had from certain parts of this Chamber, is that reflective of the questions that are asked in LFEPA meetings?

• Question by: Richard Barnbrook
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

Again, it is relating to the London Plan and forward planning across London. In my own borough and council of Barking and Dagenham there is the intention of between 15,000 and 25,000 new houses going up. This, in a sense, with the further request for more housing, both social and council, in the Ford area, in the marshes, would almost constitute a new ward being developed. Is there a possibility of future plans to upgrade the Dagenham Fire Station there on the grounds that, with this new development going forward between the next three and ten years, that there will...

• Question by: John Biggs
• Meeting date: 11 November 2009

Occasionally we have a lively exchange but let us keep to matters of professional interest here. What insights did the report give you when it described you as being too confrontational? What did you take away from that?

• Reference: 2008/0046-1
• Question by: Caroline Pidgeon
• Meeting date: 03 December 2008

Why have you offered up more savings for the financial year 2009/10 than the Mayor was seeking in his budget guidance issued earlier this Autumn?